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:: DVTGr7 PAPERS. R PORT Or Ii r: axciLliNcv TIN. mttustia TOR tO4 Z IGN Af- 41115 TO lIIS MAJtS•TY Tilt EMPLRQR AND iCINC, Stettee-Your VlaOTiOU3 arms had rendered you roaster of Vienna, the greater part of ..the...Mstrim provieces. were occupied by your, troops. The fate of that empire depended upon your will. The I:..nperor of Austria came to seek your Majesty in thseolddle of your camp. He'implored you to put .end to a contest,, which bed become so disas leers to those Who had provoked it. He Otieted to leave von for the future, free from disquietude en the Continent, so that . you 'might devote the -,efelle, _el your force to the prosecution of the, war _se;-unst England. He acknowledged • that the fen mite of war had given you a right to requite from lens w hatever you might think proper, He pro seised you eternal friendship and eternal gratitude. Toor _Majesty was toeeiwd with this melancholy iseamele et the vicissitude of human affairs; you (send not lediold 'without, emotion, that Monarch, tstly sO powerful, stript his power and gran-', deur. Your I‘ , l;ij;:str displayed your genereSity towards the Monarchy., tots irds 'the Sovereign,. towards the capital. You could have retained the whole of your immense conquests; you restored the greater part of them. The Austrian Empire acquired a new existence. - The crown was' con firmed on. the head of the Monarch. Europe be held w ith astonishment that ael of gencrosity.and 0: grandeur. Your . Majesty, however, has not fs.ecived the tribute of gratitude Which was due to The Emperor of Austria soon forgot his oath . ctei val gratitude. . Scarce WM he re-established ou , p his e 'vone, when, misled no doubt, by. deceit fie t e utinci;.‘,, he seemed to l ‘ lave no other. objectitt e t e ev, but that of re-organizing his force, and of . . weoar i n g for a' new contest ; the moment there : ipp ' eare a a erobability of cornnieticing it with ad , ~,,„t „ „e , he war against Prussia afforded s ‘te pr , oo f' a , - I these hostile dispositiens.. Austria, e 3 , tette d to c s lle& her armies in Bohemia, but the • v io or y ut .kits discoecerted 1161- projects. She was 1 01 1 0 10 s te e wanted men, cannon, and inns ,tind she v► as forced to .defer to another op-• portunity, t h e t esarcution of her hostile phtna.— Tlie Treety of I:ilsit terminated that war.----The -vidorious arms your. Majesty, which then oc eteeed the North of Germany , remained, idle, tle.'y surrounded the ,:ioastrian territories ; undoubt . &shy, it your Majesi,v's views had been guided by an antmtiuus it . the weakening of the Austrian Monarchy had appeared necessarjete your iteerests, and If your interests were the Only guide of yonr.eoodud, your Majesty, who had then no ~nervy, no hostile movemsnt to apprehend on the c on tinent, at the head i,f ('our hundred thouaand • mete occupying the': pitchy of Warsaw, Silesia, • Saxony, was Mill powerful against. Austria ; your Majesty might then have demanded of Austria eXplanation of thoselleebts, - .which her cenduCt te-eat-toued during the war with Prusste, of the sur rete!er of Cattaro to the Montenegrins, when by Ole kcal , of Presbnrg it ought to have: been bur . Ite.deteu to trance. 'scour Majesty; however, was isititil,, , ,eet to toe tee.ble : you neither listened to the • sestions of resentment nor of an ambitious es Yuur Majesty wiiihing' for the coneusion . ot a maritime 'peace, edvaticed diteelly towards that ebject, and in, order to attain it mortesesiekly, you manitested a disposition to terminate the dite" 41:13 which stilt subsisted with Austria.' and a ise,ny was concluded at Foutainbleau, in October 1407. Your Majesty . restored ;Brannan, although it was not Austria ihat placed Carting in your hands. limits of the two tari p ires were settled on the shle of Italy. By means of an exchange, the Lenz() . LLeame that t boundary which, marked by nature, seenitd calculated to prevent all dispute. Mont- I.:dcsse, whieli is su eecrssary to the safety of 'L4iekte, was ceded to the Austrians, which atterded o decisive proof that France . entertained no views against her t e rritories. It w a s then acknowledged, • that there no longer remained any subjeet.of discus s.ent between your Mutesty and the Emperor of Auxttia. 14011 that time there were-eo Mot* COM platuts, no more demands; every thing wore . the symptems of the most peried harmony ; your Ma jesty endeavoured to forget the war which Austria' had commenced against you without provocation, and the SLICC6II which had crowned the French arms, and you gaveyourself up to the hope, that a levee had been established which would not be ex 'posed to interruption. The horrible expedition .to Otspenielgee, and the-Orders in Council or the I 311) Noe; tut proved that the English would not' allow cif stuy neutral poWer. Their concluel ,excited the .of ad Europe. The. Emperor of Aus tea seemid to participate in the general sentiment. Ite recalled his Ambassador from London, and shut ht s ports against the English. The troubles in Spain broke out; they were fomented by the English. The King, Charles IV. was driven from his throne by his Son, Who was guided by the Duke De in?•intnio and other partizans of., the English. w;ioie objeA was to withdraw Spain from- her' al-. Issued ss Ws France; your Majesty was desirous of preventing your enemy from obtaining so danger ous a tietory, and thereforO opposed their effurts. When the unhappy King,' Charles,. overwhelmed with grief which he,felt ter the attempt, of which he softy the ,vietim, -wished to resign his rights, your Tic jetty occupied them in order fore-establish the work of Lewis XIY. and, to _renew that bond of union which for a century had preserved r peace be• tteettn the two countries. The fanaticism of all iselis, and the intrigues of the English, excited ,dii terbances in same of Ale provinces. 'risen- it was cal to sec clearly, what was only seen imperfectly betere tire' battle of Jena. The di* of, war, and ,cli-cord kindled its thosouth, and animated the hopes of flusters. She thought the favourable moment ,Welf cone, for.destroying the peace of. Presborgh.— Eshe arfistiti; 'a system which was called defensive was ziopted, which gave birth to those numerous biota jfroi M i litia, with which Austria threatened the 06 -ism tif Germany. The wholerpopulation of the c6 i n t try was oall4upon to take up arms. The Ma rriott Princes visited" all the Provinces, and issued Proclamstions as it the 'Monarchy was in dangei of itrtoasion by trot - enemy ; when your Majesty was v ersed of these inovementi, you charged me to make repreteittations upon the subje6 dielated by' a spirit or peace, which the Ambassador of that Power could n it niisenderstand. On your return from Bayetnitse to Paris, your. Majesty Yourself ehtered „into an ex- . planation with that Ambassador; - an explanation which is 'Mown to'all Ettrope, area which left no deubt of your pacific intention;; which your'MAjesty, expressed with as much good feitheand frankness, as ' caildour and energy. Your l‘lajesty foretold to M. D Metternich; that these armaments, commenced without a emelt*, would lead-to a-war against your Ma-• jesty's wishes, .against those of the Emperor of Aus tria, and even thoseof his Ministers, if they wished to revert to pacific principles, because, when so great a degree of impulse was,gieen to a . people, it often 'mastered those who gave it, who became unable to restrain the Movement's they had excited. Perhaps; Sire, it would have been 'More politic at that.fime,to have compelled 'Austria to disarm, . by threatening her with all the force ofyonrviaorioue armies,which At that time surrounded her.on all sides. Your Ma jesty undoubtedly would; have done so, if, relying ,upon your alliance with Russia, you had not pre ferred listening to the suggestions of that Tower ? 'which bored that Austria would be helocedeo - adoot inure wise, and pacific views. The' Austrien Attie bassadoe at that time assured your Majesty' that these - .armaments were noefotuied with hostile views, and the Emperor of AuStria wrote to your Majesty to profeti his pacificsentiments. The Baron 1)e Vin cent; ,who. was the bearer of that letter,. renewed those assurances. Your Majesty thought him sin core, and gave the Fennel= Francis the most solemn pledge of,eour pacific intentions, at the Moment you wereleavireg,Erlifrt I 1, artcl at the seine time reiterated these assueances wleCh were set, proper to dissipate all apprehensions, if fear bad been the motive that induced, Austria to teen. 'Your Majesty. invited the Priecetof the Coutederation of the Blithe; to break up the Camps which they had leaned.' You eva• coated the fortifications • of Silesia, and 200,000 of your 'troops'quitted Germeny. But it was in vain that your Majesty n anitested this confidence; Yew just expthations were • disappointed. The' military measures of Austria were culled. on with increased' a6tiviiy- In spite of the rigour of the season,, the exercises of the Milli is were 'continued without in-' terreptiote. The port of Trieste:was opened to the English, their ships of wer came there, and convey ed Austrian fleets to Malta ' end those Austeian fleets from• Malta carried English merchandize to the Le' vent. The Spanish . insurgents were. received, and Mas were given: to them al Trieste; the Austrian Charge d'Affaires in Spain became the agent 'Of 'the Junta, and the healer of its' correspondence abroad. —The Austrian States swarmed 'with libels ageiuSt France; 'the Austi inn Gazettes circulated false news respeeting the affairs of Spain ; they, published an account- of _the total defeat of your army at .Ronce vallos, regretting, .no doubt, that your Majesty's reign presented only the prodigies of that of Charle magne, and net.its fabulous disaster?. To menacing and almost hostile rneasores, were joined those un equivocal marks of ill will which proved the-object of the Austrian Al moments, And t h e spirit of ,the systeM which she had embraced. 'Such was the in formation which reached your Majesty in Spain.— . You had carried victor . ) , thither e the numerous'Spos: nigh armies were defeated like dust: The English'. army-was occupied with its retreat, and that retreat made befnre your Majesty, exposed it to the gteatest danger. One of these accidents which frequently occur in war, discover'.d to your Majesty the coct nexions subsisting between the Spanish Juntas and, the Austrian Governmt nt, and the promise of the lat ter to furnish the former e ith 100,000 men, a prolPige: which wee undoubtedly made without any intention- of performing it, but merely for the purpose of keeping up the spirits of the insurgetee by felse h o pes. Atiength, as it Providence (which has so often watched over 3 our Majesty, or rather over France, and bas emulated you as-it were by the hand) wished touueeil the bad feith and perfidy of those who dared not yet declare themselves your enemies. , The Declaration of the King Of .Etigland, of England, of the . itith December tell into yottr hands, and in it your Majesty read the following re. meltable words " If among the nations which groan under the tyranny of Frencreallinnce, or among those which maintain against France a doubtful and precarious independence, there should be any which ever were between the certain ruin of a prolonged in activity, and the 'Consequent danger of an eff or t t o save themselves front that ruitn—to .nations en • situated, the delusive prospt ola Peace between Great Britain and France coeld oot fail to he particu larly injurious. Their prepares resets might he relaxed by the vain hope of returning tranquility, or their purpose shaken by the apprehension of being left to contend alone." Thus England herself gave informa tion to youteMujesty of the preparations of Austria. These preparatious were the , cause of the failure made by the two Emperors' to to obtain a Maritime. Peoce.. Your Majesty coeld no . longer doubt-that you were mena':ed wide another war. The pro,' Mises given at Erfurtb were brokene and Austria. armed against, her benefitelor. • Youi• Majesty:was bound to ' . recollect 'what was done to yoOr people, and ,you abandoned with regret the pursuit of the. English. May one ,ef your Ministers preseme upon this occasion to be the interpreter of the pets lic opinion, of that opinion which isThunded-upon fifteen years of vietdry,"and to Add that , however great the success's were which your Lieutenants obtained, and wherever talents they displayed, still had your Majesty- conducted the' war in -per. son, not an ,Engitsinnan would have :maimed to England. But your Majesty: made this sacrifice to the , security of your dominions. Youreturned to Valladolid to give thelaseorders which the state of Spain required, and 'wrote:to t i he Princes of the Cone federation of the :Rhine to prepare their contingents, a ineesnet of sieutle precaution, which the appre hensions which they had long entertained, rendered necessary, and your Majesty returned tO Parie.. Your Majesty was willing to make another at tempt to avoid this war, which you had not pro voked. you employed the intervention Of the Rus sian Minister for Foreign AtfairS, who was then it Paris. After hearing the overtures of your Majes ty, he Ow the Austrian Ambassador,-and proposed to him an arrangement which would unittoothe three 'Empires by the ties of 'a triple guaran tee, which Would give to ,Austria, ae,a security for the retegrity her territories, the guarantee or Rossi,, :i g attot the enterprizte of Fstiece, and thaeofFC:tilew aVitiMt the eeterprrzee crt lima. , .Theetterentee ef - Aetri3 was alsp.aeacyted by the-two other Powers. , It i* painful to state it, but those propositions of M.,Ros„ manzoff did not produce any good effe&. Never. • theless,. still hoping for some success from thesis overtures, and not being able-to persuade yourself that the blind delirium which had been excited in Austria by a faaion sold to England, would entirely stifle the voices of alt brave men, and dell men who were really friends to / their country, your Ma- • jetty made bo movements among your troops, nor -among Those of the Confederation, nor among those of the divisions of the,lnterior, which your Majesty destined to maritime expeditions,. or to be sent to the relief of the Colonies. in a short time Austria did not think 'it necessary to preserve any mea sures. Bight months preparations had given,sin the Militia Which she had raised, a new army. In the middle of February, orders were issued to putall her troops in motion, and for them to march to the frontiers. The • Whole Monarchy was under artni. ) :For a long time Austria had Made war against France p at - Constantinople. She. had effeaed a reconciliation between England and Turkey. Nevertheless Atla-. isle still preserved the most profound silence. From, period of the Treaty 'of Fontainbleau, she had neither made a complaint nor a demand. Your Ma jesty had to. complain of , the assassination of your. Couriers . in. Croatia : ;' of , insults' offt• red at Trieste..te French Officers ; of violencea - offered to some•of your Italian subjekla ; but you waited patiently for the redress of your wrongs, when on the 2d of March the Austrian Ambassador announced that his Master had given orders for putting his troops on a war establishtnent. And he assigned as a cause far that measure the information transmitted to the , Princesoi;tbe Confederation of the Rhine, from Val- - ladolid, -some articles which appeared in the Joir- . palsj. and, finally, yoorMajesty's return to Paris.— ,Your Majesty ordered me to' reply by a Note, in which I recalled to his recalleoliou that there was no. subject - of discussion. bet Ween the two Courts, and ;demanded of. Austria what it was she required, again ~expreising your . Majesty's wish that the people of Europe should enjoy the blessings of peace. M. de Metterniph 'endeavoured in his answer of the t 2th, to prove that it was the armaments of your Majesty that caused thote of Austria, as if your Majesty had armed against' Austria when you had evacuated Si- lesia and Warsaw, transported . 2,00,000 ;nen from Germany to Spain. It was not till then'that your Majesiy renounced entirely your projeas against the: English, the expedition against Sicily, which the King of Naples had prepared, and the embarkations , which were to have taken place at . Brest, Boulogne, Flushing, and. Toulonsi every thing was counter-' j manded,, and the troops- marched for Germany.--- No, it is not because France has avowed that Au-. stria is under arms. On the contrary, it'is.because she found Freeze weakened by• another war, and thought the moment favourable for the re-establish ment of her ancient influence that she made these prodigious efforts. She makes war, no doubt, be cause she thinks she can mike it with success. She hat made it withotif any,complaint, witheut making any demand, any proposition, or leaving the other party arty - choice. She has made war, when your Majesty, so far . from requiring , any _thing , of her, only manifested a wish for her tranquility and pros perity. When you offered ,, to guarantee ;the inte grity of her territories,- when she EMperor Alex ander, having expressed, his' disapprobition of the conduit - of 2-Ursula to the Austrian -Ambassador, offered to renew his guarantee. against France. — Austria makes war against France and against Rus sia ; against those two Powers that offered to pro te4 her. Thus, it is not for security that she has taken arms. The treaties which tixed her fate ate no longer a law to her. She says they were con cluded under disasters, as if the cessions obtained by victory were not binding upon the vanquished. You; Majesty received intelligence that the Austriaps hadpaased the Inn, that they had commenced the war. A letter Waif written from the Austrian Geh• neral to the French General, stating that he . was about to march forward, and that he should treat those as enemies who opposed him.—Your Majesty did every thing to avoid this war, which prudence and moderation could suggest. But if the spirit which has always animated Austria, has made the politics of that 'Power an obstacle to a Maritime Peace, perhaps it is •not tb be regretted that she has brought on the crisisWhich•Will remove the obstacle. The Maritime Peace will not take place, until the Peace of the Continent is established, and.until the English shall have lost all hopei of disturbing it by their, intrigues. May such be , the . resultri of this new war. Yone. Majesty is not jealous of the pOwer of Austria, and does not desire its destruction ; but may you, by Your arms, the only, resource left you, bring her back to,a real-state of peace. Peace is the most -worthy conquest your Majesty can ob tain, and it is the., one yeti desire most. Site, your people will second you in this new contest. The admtrable foresight of your Majesty, which enables you to carry on a nets war without adding to, the horthens of the state, is deeply felt by a grateful people, a people who admite every thing that is great, defend'every thing that is just, and are pas sionately fond of military glory. If mord efforts should be tiecessary to. ensure the success of your' arms, they will anticipate your. wishes: '• Their- devotion will equal the love and admiration they feel ter. their-august Sovereign.--- Tito Minister for Foreign Affairs. . . • (Signed), Paris,4pril 12. CHAMPAGNY. ROTT42I3Abf, MAY 2.—As this publication was going to• press, we received PHris Letters of Ft idiy, the 28111 of April,. the contents of which are as follow : \‘‘ Yesterday evening the glorious vietory obtained over the Austrians - was announced by firiog the guns. At the different theatres the intelligence -was.coni atuniented in.th3e terms.:— • . • A letter from the Prince of . Neufchatel, dated the 23d April, at noon, on the field of battle, states, that the battle of Ratisbon has beeq much more adw vantageous 'than that of Jena ; and that the' army of the Archduke Charles has been totally , defeated, with the "loss of 30,000 prisoners, all their colours and baggage. Cam ler who was the berer of this letter arrived at tive o'clock, and OBStiCti on the road, at Nancy,. the officer , who brings the bulletin.' '" M. Oudinut, one of the EMperor's pages, ar rived here this evening. fie is charged with a corn wink:Winn of the victory. of Ratishon to the Mem bet,: of the ImperiA tinnily, who are in Paris, and aisu to the Arch-Chancellor of the Empire." The Itforitettr of the - 28th.contains the follnceiog . l), article, under the date of Paris, April 27th :---- • - s " A Courier Extraordinary, who arrived at three. - - L I o'clock this afternoon, has brought a letter to his illUstrious Highness the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire, from the Prince Vice-Constable. and 1, Major-General of the army. The letter is dated at noon of the 23d instant, on. the field of battle neat Ratisbnif. - .. .. , . "The Emperor," it says, "has obtained a viaory, , greater, if possible, than that of Jena, over the army. of Prince Charles.. The battle of Ratisbon lasted . , 11 three days. Prince Charles has been defeated at all " I pOints, with the loss of colours, cannon, baggage. and 30,000 prisoners. His Majesty is in .good i health. . i I r , RANRPORT, APRIL e5.--The battle which) has if taken place near Ratisbon, must, according to all I . accounts, have been terrible and decisive air to the Austrians ; but the circumstantial details of it can- not be obtained, with any degree of certainty, except through France. ' The King of Wirtemberg has taken possession of , the principality of Mergertheint, on account, ay liia Mpg): says', of the hostile condu& of the'Emrsor 'of Austria. The King of Westphalia is to command the tenth army in Germany. which is to be speedily organised. It . will consist cif the Westphalian and Dutch troop F, el tpa fdw battalions of French, and its destination - will be to preserve' the peace of Germans', and I . ° proteA the coast from any attack on the part of the . j English. General D'Albignac; who commands thtn ,Pdvanced guard,..heo his march from 'Cassel on: the , 22d, with two regiments of cavalry and a bat''' tery of flying artillery. - . . On the 20th, some Austrian !miens and jagers , .. belonging to the advanced-guard of the army of Bo hemia, entered Nuremberg. but they again left the. ~ place in the morning of the 22d. , HAMBURGH, APRIL 25.—A letter from Dresden, of the 16th, says—" On the 14th arrived here an Aid-de-Camp of his Royal Highness the Prince of Neufchatel, with important dispatches fdr the Mar shal Me - Prince of Foote Corvo. A few hours after we - lehnt that the . Saxon army was to march, on 4 accordingly the second division actually marched Off ' yesterday, and this day it will ee followed by the ' first-division.- The Prince of Ponte Corvo is at the bead of the troops. The destination of the Saxon artily has not hitherto transpired.' TIKI, arms in the arsenal are embarking, and the forti fi cations are n o longer going on with. The CoUrt has repaired to . Leipsic." . It is'cureently reported here, that a Danish army is to' assemble in Holstein . . A Prussian (truth- I 5 also to - be assembled, according to the reports to circulation, at Berlin. Lityper.r, Amur. 30.—The Letters ' frotn Ger: many state, that the French army, with the trilled troops of the Catifediration of the Rhine, cons4ta 0. 122 battalions Of infantry, exclusive of a nuoletoll3 army of reserve* • - (1/1101H THE JOURNAL -DE- L'EMPIRE.) i . PARIS - , APRIL 26,-;-The following account " given of the battle just gained by our army in G er '' many : 1, oti the 17th our army Wigan to moomivre ott the left flank of the Austpani. Several 'skirmishes ensued between the out-posts.;. but on the 19th, it is said, a most serious attack began, and the scone of aEtion is stated to have been between* Neustadt and Ratisbon, when the Austrians were totally routed.. The French were led. on by the Prince of Neuf^ .chatel. - • The Emperor; who arrived at the head quarters on the tyth at* night, place 4 himself in the centre of his army at day-light of the following morning, an attacked the enemy at all points. BY one of his grand manoeuvres, he was enabled to Gu t asunder their different corps,_ which were thus rev; tiered incapfible of re-nniting.'—The battle contino e " during the .etst, 22d, and 23d. On the gist r, had already taken 10,000 prisoriers.. lt.is sai d th a t the Austrians have in all lost 25,000„: . twenty of th eir Generals - have been killed, wounded, or tae,"' - ' - , •up to the night of the 210 the k m peror ha d you . alighted from his horse. We are. assured .that this intelligence has been received by various tolegraPi"r messages, as well as private letters; and hope ilmt the joyful tidings will soon be' ann ouncvdc STI.7TdARD, APRIL 23:L.-The following o ftic ' i 'Bulletin has : this day been received (roni burgh : Ratisbon,lApiil Li. ' " The. Austrian army has been scattered as dot • . all the corps are dispersed. Upwards of 20 Gener,4.6 " R•hri between Landchutgo.a have been killed or wounded. One Archduke P(l3°. been left dead on the field two others are iseull ed. We have takori more than thirty thoulan d prisoners; and a great number of standards, caella n n ' t and Magazines, have -fallen itgo our hands.• the army, which dared to defy the French, but very will recross the' Inn. It has been rea:ll:lteu ' , that on this occrsion, as in the battle of' Jail'' , I l lw-g " / who were the instigators of the war have beconof • its first vietims. The Prince Lichtenstein, Her t el the prine;pal instigator!, has received a .oe., wound. His Majesty the Emperor yesterclet3o curedhis manoeuvres in the midst of 40,00 0 °liifj troops tof 'the Confederation of the Rhine. .i ti r o Majesty harangued them, and they displayed' highest gallantry." ..7 RIRDLINGEN, APRIL 22..... Me are inforrow--1/1 t edtt h ilal' e efe D uarr a st': n4 rd b; t a o: t hr te : R ti rnaM g l o belia l b s rr t :g a lli c la l a t l , lioD'nci w utp h kb e aae r r e omif t B l s i tt l :h y dti. , te w rt e lsl ; llPs r ht e eilPalliifo ‘l llll ed by the Bavarian divisions which were sti i t i( h )lle gs Geislingen, consisting of 20,000, wen. 4- 11 11 1 ' 11 list mentioned troops marched forward on the !7 he to the Iser,: by, which means they' speedily file' enemy, .and the skirmishes began between Pi; Abach. At all points the Austrian troops - driven back ; and at the same moment one of t- 4 , 11 . 0 diVisions was forced to retreat by RatisbOrts left, Thus the whole of the Austrian orce.lcw_A confuted within Bavaria. Meauwhile the colOb u bac i troops which came~ from Landshut by the Lech , hi p arriveclupon the right flank of the Auu o r ians, v , . 00 a division of French troops, which had rernaiti, v .„ the other side of the above river , • ha d. advanced 3 AICiIII.' , On the 20th, the Austrian army Was viga attacked on both wings, and # dePPet4o :44 .l''lo 4 tune sued, Which lasted for some te: theAusti